Table 1 The inclusion/exclusion criteria applied to the screening of papers for the review
Included | Excluded |
|---|---|
Primary health care | Hospital-based care |
Nurse/midwifery-led health delivery | Care delivered by doctors, community or lay health workers |
Study participants: vulnerable population groups | Study participants: general population, high socio-economic index |
Interventions included: nurse/midwife education/training and/or increase in supply and/or human resource management (HRM) strategy and/or policy/ practice change and/or collaborative partnership arrangements | Interventions did not include: nurse/midwife education/training and/or increase in supply and/or HRM strategy and/or policy/ practice change and/or collaborative partnership arrangements |
Outcomes included improvement in: acceptability/satisfaction/uptake of services and/or service quality and/or health outcomes and/or nurse/midwife capacity to promote, care and manage health issues | Outcomes did not include improvement in: acceptability/satisfaction/uptake of services and/or service quality and/or health outcomes and/or nurse/midwife capacity to promote, care and manage health issues |
Research | Discursive or descriptive outlines of projects |
English | Non-English |
>2005 | <2005 |